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It’s a blog, and a very good one at that. It makes me think of the days when you would go to someone’s Geocities page and they would have a shitload of images on there, taking forever to load. It was only a 14k modem for crying out loud! Jump to the future! Someone can put up galleries upon galleries of images that load in seconds! Super Underwear Perverts takes full advantage of this modern miracle to give us galleries upon galleries of sexy dude pics with an occasional superhero theme.

I don’t know if it’s the frequency of the posts, the number of images in them, the fun categories, or what but I highly enjoy seeing what’s new everyday. The labels include comic related things like “Mirror Master” and “Super Villain” as well as other things like “Spandex” and, my favorite, “Beer.” It’s an obeisance to alcohol’s ability to make straight dudes get it on with other dudes in some capacity or another.
As you scroll down the page of nerdy, weird but mostly sexy pictures, the sidebar has a ton of covers from comics, graphic novels and trade paperbacks as well as some pretty gay books. Now that I’ve enticed you and gotten you to red my review, you should go here and take a gander. If you like dudes ,then you’ll enjoy it. If you like comics you’ll enjoy it even more.

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Don’t get excited, it’s not nearly as hot as it sounds. It’s a lip balm made out of Oskar Blues’ Old Chub beer. The lip balm doesn’t taste like beer, unfortunately. Beer, hops and barley are in the list of ingredients, but before that comes cocoa oil and shea butter and stuff. It actually kind of tastes like coffee. I think maybe Tully’s could buy it from them and they wouldn’t even have to change the color of their packaging.
Oh, how well does it protect my lips from the elements? I dont know, pretty well I guess. I’m gonna keep using it. I think it’s the novelty, but I’m starting to like the flavor and hey, maybe it is preventing the chapping of my lips.

This is a strong beer that isn’t heavy and doesn’t have an overbearing flavor. It’s a 7.5% english pale ale. It was sweet and I could tell that it was going to induce a headache. It did, but it also got me buzzed.
Also, this picture does not do the bottle justice. In real life the neck looks much more like a butt plug.

Yesterday my boss gave me a half rack of Old Milwaukee because it was the last one and we are no longer going to sell it. We never really did, actually. I’m not sure why it was in the store. It was “my friday”, as we say, so I had planned on drinking a bunch of it. I had never had it before, knew it was going to be bad, but also knew I had had worse. I’m no snob.
I opened one when I got home from work and about an hour later I realized that I wasn’t even half finished with it. It was still cold, but sipping it left a horrid after taste. It’s really, really gross. Not Steel Reserve gross, but this video shows how I feel about it:

(sorry the quality sucks. my camera is the pathetixxorz.)

I was thinking that I’m allergic to sulfites, a preservative in wine. Wine would make me nauseous and give me a bad headache. I hated it before I could even try to enjoy it. So tonight I tried a wine with no sulfites. I’m buzzed and not sick, so I’m all for it. I only had half the bottle. If I drank it all and was with friends, I’d be having a great time.

I was never a big fan of IPAs but I’ve been warming up to them latley. Sometimes they’re just too bitter, or “hoppy”, I guess. This is one of my favorites. Naturally the label caught my attention. Not only is it printed in my favorite color combination, there is an adorable fat boy on it. 6.2% by vol., and in a 22 oz bottle, it’s just right. The flavor is bright, but not too strong. I get a decent buzz off it even while eating.
The beer seems to sell pretty quickly at my store, especially among the employees. Not only that, but I think the guy on the label is one of my friend’s girlfriend’s cousin or something. I hope we keep carrying it and it does well enough that we get in some of Lazy Boy’s other brews.
It was so good, I made out with the bottle, even though the dude isn’t as hot as the last beer I made out with.

Last night (2-9-07) after attending the opening part for a Bruce Nauman exhibit at the Henry, Jeremy, some friends of his and myself went to Changes for drinks. I had a lot of fun, but I think that was due more to the company than the place we were at. I’ve never been drawn to gay bars (probably because I’ve never had many gay friends) and this place didn’t convince me that they are better than any other bar.
Upon arriving, we ordered a pitcher and each had a Jello shot. The Jello shots were only $1, and were great. This was, I think, only the second one I’ve ever had because every time I’d go to a party that had them, they’d be gone. That’s what I get for being Tardy McLaterson. The pitchers were octogonal and a little wider than usual, but that’s because there was this cylinder going right up through the middle. When it was expressed to the bar thender that we thought we might be getting less beer because of this, he told us it was so that the beer stayed cold. This was laughable, seeing as how the beer would never get a chance to be warm.
We drank on the back patio and I chain smoked as we talked with some colorful (crazy) people. There was a guy (who used to be a woman) who wanted to cut our hair. When Jeremy pointed out that neither of us had hair, he used the beard-trimming angle. I don’t even trim mine like I should, I’m not paying anyone to do it. The back patio had a tv showing videos from the likes of La Bouche and Kylie Minogue ( i think).
I didn’t like the bathroom. It was a closet of a place and the urinal and toilet ar crammed right up against near each other. I DID like the stack of VHS tapes on one table. it looks like some sort of exchange thing where you can take one for a donation and leave some. maybe. I didn’t look into it too much, but it might be a nice way for me to get rid of some of my crappy tapes ( and pick up more).
Jeremy said that he used to screen guys by taking them to Sunday brunch there. He’s never taken me probably because he knows I’d fail miserably. I’m sure I would.
Will I go there again? If I’m drinking with some cool dudes who want to go there again, sure. By myself? Never.

This ale is something quite special. First and foremost, it’s percentage is 11.23%. That packs a punch. Usually with something that strong I expect something really strong tasting, maybe with a lot of hops. Old Gaurdian, however, is remarkably smooth. As a friend said, it hardly has a bite to it. IT’s light but it gave me a fun kind of buzz I haven’t had in a while. I hope to get a few more of these in me while they are available. I think they’re $5.99 where I work.
MAn, I wish I had written this while I was drinking it so that I could elaborate more. Not so that you caould get a more in depth review, but so that the text would take up all the room along side the image to the left.

I am drunk and/or high on pot. caffeene, nicotine, etc, erc./

its cool, buyt my head’ll hurt int the mornin’,.

$9.99, 32 oz bottle
2 parts mix,1 part vodka:
-Tart, fruity flavor
-So SWEET! Sure to cause a headache if many are consumed.
-Great, if you hate the taste of vodka…but then why are you drinking it?
1/2 mix, 1/2 vodka:
-Much smoother. Still sweet, but not too much to enjoy.
-I can taste the vodka enough that my nose goes a little numb with each sip. This is good.
-It doesn’t taste bad, but the sweetness still makes me fear a headache. I’m sure I’ll be switching over to beer after I try…
2 parts vodka, 1 part mix